shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S. congressman and four others at a nearby airstrip. Of the nearly 1,000 church members who began the day in Jonestown, a cult commune, only 33 ...
When Tim Reiterman set out to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mass murders and suicides ... and journalists including Reiterman were ambushed on a nearby airstrip. The Nov. 18, ...
After the airstrip shooting, Jones summoned his congregation to the compound’s open-air pavilion, telling them that soldiers would soon be “parachuting” into Jonestown to kill everyone.
Not 24 hours earlier, Jones had dispatched gunmen to an airstrip to assassinate Congressman ... reports of coercion and sex ...
The tour will include a flight from the capital city of Georgetown to the airstrip in Port Kaituma, where Ryan’s group was attacked, and an air-conditioned drive to the remote Jonestown site.